Pushing the envelope: do narrowly and widely distributed Eucalyptus species differ in response to climate warming?
autotrophic respiration
climate warming
photosynthesis
physiological acclimation
relative growth rate
species distribution models
Journal
The New phytologist
ISSN: 1469-8137
Titre abrégé: New Phytol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9882884
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024
Historique:
received:
03
10
2023
accepted:
29
03
2024
medline:
26
4
2024
pubmed:
26
4
2024
entrez:
26
4
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Contemporary climate change will push many tree species into conditions that are outside their current climate envelopes. Using the Eucalyptus genus as a model, we addressed whether species with narrower geographical distributions show constrained ability to cope with warming relative to species with wider distributions, and whether this ability differs among species from tropical and temperate climates. We grew seedlings of widely and narrowly distributed Eucalyptus species from temperate and tropical Australia in a glasshouse under two temperature regimes: the summer temperature at seed origin and +3.5°C. We measured physical traits and leaf-level gas exchange to assess warming influences on growth rates, allocation patterns, and physiological acclimation capacity. Warming generally stimulated growth, such that higher relative growth rates early in development placed seedlings on a trajectory of greater mass accumulation. The growth enhancement under warming was larger among widely than narrowly distributed species and among temperate rather than tropical provenances. The differential growth enhancement was primarily attributable to leaf area production and adjustments of specific leaf area. Our results suggest that tree species, including those with climate envelopes that will be exceeded by contemporary climate warming, possess capacity to physiologically acclimate but may have varying ability to adjust morphology.
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Journal Article
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eng
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Organisme : Australian Research Council
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© 2024 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2024 New Phytologist Foundation.
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